Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

MIT scientists have used modern technology to unravel the mysterious self-healing properties of ancient Roman concrete.

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...

Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable self-healing concrete ...

An international team of researchers has mapped the entirety of an ancient, buried Roman city known as Falerii Novi using radar scanning technology. The researchers unraveled the secrets of the city, ...

Rome, as they say, wasn’t built in a day. But it was built with great imagination and engineering brio. From elegantly simple pulleys to arches, aqueducts, and catapults, the Romans harnessed and ...

What can concrete made during the Roman Empire help modern engineering develop more efficient concrete? This is what a recent study published in iScience hopes to address as an international team of ...

Nathalie Roy has fused her passion for Latin with her interest in the wonders of the ancient world. The result is something new: a class in Roman Technology. This unlikely elective course open to ...

An Egyptian-Libyan research team offers an in-depth analysis of an ancient Roman bronze steelyard balance, revealing its advanced manufacturing techniques and the ravages of time after centuries ...

The Classical Outlook, Vol. 93, No. 4 (2018), pp. 135-145 (11 pages) Corporals Corner. “How to Make Roman Concrete,” YouTube video, 18:45, July 30, 2017, https ...